Results from Carteret: Thomas Blumenfeld, Kahshad Elliott score KOs
Photos by Carlo Estonactoc
Thomas Blumenfeld scored his second straight KO at the Carteret Performing Arts Center, stopping Julio Rosa after four rounds on Friday.
Blumenfeld, 10-0 (9 KOs), of Springfield, Vermont dominated Julio Rosa, (11-6, 6 KOs), stopping the durable “Pantera” of Orlando, Florida for the first time in his career. Rosa, 32, did not answer the bell for the fifth round of their ten-round scheduled main event. The southpaw Blumenfeld, a former member of the Canadian national team, is managed by Daniel Gonzalez.
The show was promoted by Rising Star Promotions.
In other results, Plainfield’s Kahshad Elliott (6-0, 5 KOs), scored a third round knockout of Edgar Gutierrez (3-5, 2 KOs) in the second round of their junior middleweight fight. The loss is the fifth straight for Gutierrez, 33, of Yuma, Arizona. Elliott, 25, is a former ten-time national amateur champion.
In the most competitive fight of the night, Danny Barrios Flores (17-1, 6 KOs) of Phoenix, Arizona defeated Roselle Park based Venezuelan Franklin Gonzalez (25-3, 25 KOs) by an eight round unanimous decision, sending Gonzalez to his fourth straight loss.
Cesar Francis (14-2, 9 KOs) of West New York bounced back from his controversial no contest in February, knocking out Wayne Boudreaux (6-3, 3 KOs) in the third round. Francis dropped Boudreaux with a right hand that knocked him through the ropes before the fight was stopped.
Lisandra Contreras (2-0), a native of the Dominican Republic now based in Passaic, scored her second straight win, defeating St. Louis based Mona Ward (0-3) by unanimous decision. Contreras is now boxing out of Legacy Boxing in Belleville.
The card was rounded out by two New Jersey based veterans of the local amateur scene. Bernard Gardner, a Jersey City middleweight who now goes by Rex Presidential, knocked out the debuting Joshua Ross in one round, while Perth Amboy’s Jimmy Martinez won a unanimous decision over Chicago’s Javonni Bennett (0-3).
Gardner, now 32, was an open class Golden Gloves champion in 2018 and 2019.
Rising Star Promotions will have its next show on December 6 at Bally’s Atlantic City.